Category Archives: Commentary

Chile: From Uprising to Plebiscite: Street Victories, Electoral Defeats

From the CrimethInc. collective (20/09/2022), sharing voices from chile … From Uprising to Plebiscite: Street Victories, Electoral Defeats – Perspectives from Chile on the Constitutional Plebiscite In October 2019, an uprising exploded throughout Chile. For a while, the police and … Continue reading

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Fritz Oerter: Violence or non-violence?

Before the horrors of the First World War and the violence unleashed by the new, post-war German republic against the revolution of 1919-20, the anarchist-syndicalist Fritz Oerter made an impassioned defence of what he called “non-violent socialism”. If for some … Continue reading

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Jean-Luc Godard by Jean-Luc Godard

For Jean-Luc Godard … Nous n’avons jamais prétendu que l’art puisse changer la nature et la qualité des choses, faire du crime une vertu, rendre moralement bon ce qui est moralement mauvais. Nous disons que l’art, en tant qu’art, est … Continue reading

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The Legacy of the St. Imier Congress

The St. Imier Congress of 1872 was one of the defining moments of the anarchist movement within the the broader tradition of European socialism. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Congress and a gathering has been called for … Continue reading

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Gary Snyder and Wild Anarchism

For Gary Snyder To be truly free one must take on the basic conditions as they are—painful, impermanent, open, imperfect—and then be grateful for impermanence and the freedom it grants us. Gary Snyder, The Etiquette of Freedom There is an … Continue reading

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: From futurist fascism to geriatric fascism

There are weeks to go until the 100th anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirt March on Rome. With less than 30 days before the elections that could put a woman in power for the first time, and a fascist, the philosopher … Continue reading

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Theses of the Socialist Patients’ Collective

The desire to live is something in dispute: there is no desire; we are increasingly obedient, more submissive. Our vital energies are being expropriated and captured through different devices, which corner us in impotence, confusion, indifference, stupidity. But there are … Continue reading

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Amador Fernández-Savater: Having superpowers – Reading as an experience of emancipation

For N al-K … The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. … Continue reading

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Virginia Woolf: Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Virginia Woolf, in times of war … The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a … Continue reading

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Virginia Woolf: Anarchy against war

The daughters of educated men who were called, to their resentment, ‘feminists’ were in fact the advance guard of your own movement. They were fighting the same enemy that you are fighting and for the same reasons. They were fighting … Continue reading

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